Editorial

The awe that befalls a new editor of the Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review is considerable. I am honored to have been entrusted this rôle. Among the responsibilities that come with it is that of maintaining the journal's tradition, which I think of as Freudian in the best sense of this word: the Scandinavian Review is open to contributions on clinical and theoretical questions pertaining to the inner world, and it requires of its contributors an intellectually honest attitude — knowledgeable, creative, critical, but not polemic — to psychoanalytic theories, clinical practices, and conceivable other applications; its pages include articles that represent different schools of psychoanalytic thought as well as contributions from other disciplines that may shed light on psychoanalytic questions and on the history of psychoanalysis.

It is perhaps as reassuring to the readership as it is to me that the appointment of a new editor-in-chief this time is a rotation of positions within a closely-knit and dedicated group of associate editors. I anticipate that my successful predecessor Susanne Lunn as well as the other members of the editorial board, who together represent all of the current Psychoanalytic Societies in Scandinavia, including Finland, will remain in place in the foreseeable future. This hope also encompasses the journal's technical and language editor Keith Jones. Having unflinchingly assisted all of the journal's previous editors — a succession of distinguished psychoanalysts — since 1981, he is among those who have contributed to the journal's standard and to the legacy I hope to be able to match.

Should I venture to express at this point one vision for the future of our journal, it would be to continue to promote its international impact. From this point of view, it is gratifying that two of the articles in this issue are by authors from countries outside Scandinavia, those by Antonio Ferro and Roberto Basile, and Siegfried Zepf, respectively. We hope that ot